ANDREW BREITBART:

Sen. Barack Obama has a problem. And it lives in a hut.

His name is George Hussein Onyango Obama, and he is the 26-year-old half brother of Mr. Obama, the multimillionaire autobiographer who neglected to write that his paternal sibling lives on less than a dollar a month in the outer slums of Nairobi, Kenya.

They have met twice.

Unearthed by Italian Vanity Fair and virtually ignored by the American press, the inconvenient George Obama could emerge as a compelling character in the freshman senator’s carefully edited road-to-the-White-House narrative – especially now that his campaign has unleashed a personal attack on Sen. John McCain’s station in life.

Perhaps the McCains will adopt George.

REPORTING FROM Bonneville Speed Week. But the steam car was a no-show, alas.

ED RENDELL: Obama Coverage Was Embarrassing. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet, Ed. And note how Judy Woodruff, et al., tried to shut him up.

UNITY NOT COMPLETE: “Sen. Barack Obama’s bid for party unity at the Democratic National Convention, which opens Monday, is being challenged by angry supporters of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton who refuse to let heal wounds from a brutal primary fight that their candidate lost.”

Plus, from Politico: “As Democrats arrived here Sunday for a convention intended to promote party unity, mistrust and resentments continued to boil among top associates of presumptive nominee Barack Obama and his defeated rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton.”

And more, from CNN: “Sixty-six percent of Clinton supporters, registered Democrats who want Clinton as the nominee, are now backing Obama. That’s down from 75 percent in the end of June. Twenty-seven percent of them now say they’ll support McCain, up from 16 percent in late June.”

UPDATE: JWF: “Just imagine if you had massive amounts of Republicans defecting from the GOP and declaring they’d be voting for Barack Obama. You’d have a nonstop deluge of Obamacan stories flooding the media.”

IS THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN de-emphasizing Biden?

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT THIS WEEKEND, here’s my defense of Biden over the plagiarism thing, from The Appearance of Impropriety.

INSIDE HIGHER ED: Did a Union Doublecross Its College Activists? “Student activists on several college campuses are speaking out against one of the nation’s largest labor groups, claiming they were deceived and used as ‘pawns’ by the Service Employees International Union.”

TONY WOODLIEF: How Can I Teach My Kids to Enjoy Work? “I’m a small-government guy, but when it comes to a work ethic, I find myself siding with the left. Humans need work, and they need to see that their work has a purpose. Come to think of it, you’ll hear that from any of America’s countless business gurus. We’re all Marxists now.”

MICKEY KAUS: Things We Thought We’d Never See: Democrats Rally Against the Teachers’ Unions! To “loud applause” — from Democrats!

AT THE POLITICAL CONVENTIONS: “Unlimited Money and Little Disclosure.”